Looks like a good extension, but I still think lemmy should have better native support. In general, more features from RES need to make their way over.
I agree, I mean it kind of sounds like they have something dodgy they're about to put out but they're playing silly buggers and trying to deflect the blame, else they would have released already and pointed to the lack of a store release as the stores' problem.
Desktop website. The images are there, but there's no way to expand. In particular, the main post image (rather than the ones in the post text) never expands right.
Hopefully the new UI's that people are making (shout out to /u/sunaurus@lemm.ee with his next-ui) will fix some of these issues.
Pretty sure they're signed by Microsoft instead? At least that's what other app stores do.
It's all a game of shifting the point of trust around. Personally, I'd trust most small time developers more than the likes of Microsoft and Google, however I'd trust Fdroid more than unknown developers (but still go direct to the developers I do trust).
One thing that annoys me about lemmy is that images are always shrunk down to a certain size limit, then there's no way to expand them without opening the image in a new tab.
Yes, but only because it's Google. Fdroid do exactly the same thing in their repo.
The idea behind it is sound, because otherwise you're putting all your trust in the app developer. By having the store do some basic checks and compile the app the idea is they can guarantee no third party/bad actor has inserted malicious code.
However, this being Google, they are the bad actor.
Not just Tor, they poison DNS queries from Cloudfare and Quad9, basically any DNS that doesn't give them sufficient location information about the end user.
VLC don't update on Fdroid, Fdroid compile all the apps on their repo (the one that comes with the app). Fdroid do some checks on the updated app before they compile it, so it's always a little behind the main release.
Edit: it could also be that VLC haven't yet released the updated app (and in particular its source), so Fdroid have nothing to work with.
Generally with small time apps, sure, but VLC are trustworthy enough to get it straight from the source. However, it's not like VLC is an app that you need to keep up to date as soon as possible.
That's right. Fdroid the app is just a program that accesses repositories. It's not even the only one, Aurora has a similar version of their own called Aurora Droid.
Fdroid the repo is a repository of FOSS apps maintained by the Fdroid team with apps they've reviewed and compiled themselves, to provide an element of trust that you might not get from every random developer.
There's no fool proof way of handling app trust other than developing your own understanding of the code. Otherwise you have to trust someone. Fdroid seem pretty trustworthy, more than the big corporations, and more than many unknown small time developers - however you can get app updates quicker direct from the developer, through the Fdroid app, if you're willing to trust them.
Also FYI I think lemm.ee has some automation that blocks these. I don't ever seem to get them, yet when I check other instances I can see them. Either that, or our admin are just hot on this stuff and ban them early on - both of these users were banned 3-4 days ago.
lemmy.tf seems to be a problem instance, it's still running v0.19.0 and doesn't have captcha for sign ups.
You wrote usernames as email addresses. You should have put /u/ in front to make links. You can also use @, however that will send a metion notification to the user.
Why should Johnson do anything that Greene wants when she's trying to knock him out of his job?
Granted, I'd like to see him go, but Greene is a much bigger turd.